thermodynamics
What does everyone get wrong about entropy, and why does it matter?: Philosophers
Ilya Prigogine won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977 for work on dissipative structures — systems that sustain themselves far from thermodynamic equilibrium by importing energy and exporting entropy, systems like hurricanes and living cells and cities — and then he spent the... What does everyone get wrong about entropy, and why does it matter?: Information theorists
Shannon’s entropy — H = -sum of p log p — measures the average uncertainty in a message source. The less predictable a source, the higher its entropy. This is not a metaphor borrowed from physics. It is the same mathematics, applied to signals instead of heat.... What does everyone get wrong about entropy, and why does it matter?: The Story
Almost everyone who has heard the word entropy thinks they know what it means. They are almost all wrong. The standard version goes like this: entropy is disorder. Things fall apart. Your coffee gets cold. The universe winds down....